Projects
Solist
Being a solo musician is the hardest and most intense of all, and therefore it is fun!
In my solo program, I play my compositions as well as the most beautiful and virtuous pieces ever written for Oud.
I play also Def, Riq, Cajon, Stompbox, and Cümbüs and bring present a band made of a soloist with the Loopstation.
There is no better way to get to know the Oud with all of its histories over 4500 years, sounds, and horizons than to listen to my solo repertoire!
Stringed Compass
It’s a dreamlike garden of melodies that reshape ordinary
senses and transform ears to breathe the aroma of warm rain on a dry earth and unite what geography separates.
You will enter a magical rainbow of tunes drifting to magical territories where Oriental-Latin-Jazz, Syrian Bolero,
and Arabic Bluegrass are all floating on a sea of enchanted
rhythms.
This is a mystical world of music in which 28 is the new 15;
rivers from divergent continents meet; and where a migrant migraine is the saga you crave to experience; while you are gazing at a “stringed compass” that redefines all directions in a disoriented perpetual struggle.
You are invited to unwrap these sweet, sour, and bitter
musical horizons through these original compositions and
arrangements!
Thabet Azzawi (Syria): Oud, Def, Riq, Cajon, Cümbüs
Max Loeb Garcia (Colombia): Guitar
Banda Comunale (Internationale)
The Banda Comunale has been making music in Dresden for 20 years. We make unrestrained use of cultural assets from supposedly foreign countries and peoples. Our repertoire largely contains music from the crisis regions of the world: North Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East,
Colombia, West, East and Central Africa, Eastern Europe.
The now almost 20-member collective with musicians from Germany, Syria, Palestine, Scotland, Brazil, Italy, Russia, Poland and Iraq has won numerous awards since then
won and played more than 400 concerts in Dresden, Saxony and Germany.
The big common goal was to reinterpret native music, to open hearts, to break down prejudices and resentments and to contribute to understanding between new and long-established Saxons, Germans and Europeans.
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